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Today I learned that the word “gorilla” comes from Hanno the Navigator, who discovered a “tribe of hairy women” as he was sailing down the west coast of Africa, whom his local guides called the

@til Today I learned that the word “gorilla” comes from Hanno the Navigator, who discovered a “tribe of hairy women” as he was sailing down the west coast of Africa, whom his local guides called the “gorillai”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanno/_the/_Navigator#Gorillai

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Today I learned that the Austrian School of Economics, on which our current economic models are based, is not itself based on empiricism and in fact argues that it should not be based on empiric

@til Today I learned that the Austrian School of Economics, on which our current economic models are based, is not itself based on empiricism and in fact argues that it should not be based on empiric studies at all but on thought experiments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology#Austrian_economics

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